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A bad business decision is not psychosis. Misjudging the value provided by a product is not psychosis.

Making bad financial decisions is a symptom of mania though

and when you look up what spending while having a manic episode looks like, does it resemble a layoff? or is it substantively different?

It absolutely could be the case a person in a manic episode lays off a bunch of people that wouldn’t be out of the question at all

sure and if layoffs were clinical indicators for mania, we'd probably see a whole lot less of them. unfortunately that's not our world